SCHOOL LESSONS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 66, 5 April 1937, Page 4

SCHOOL LESSONS

Work For The Primary Divisions ELEVENTH SERIES Following is the 11th. series of lessons for primary schools in the Hastings district : — READING AND SPELLINC FORM 2Reading : Read aloud, even if nobody listens, to the end of page 36, March Journal. Note the rhytbm of "Summer Day" 4 feet— 3 - 4 -3. The Green Donkey Driver is a selection adapted from "Travels with a Donkey," by R. L. Stevenson. I hope it will interest you so that you will procure the book from the local library. The author was a "hiker,'' and lover of nature. He was a consumptive and came out to Samoa for health reasons and there lid made great friends with the natives aiid died among them- Most of his writings you would find interesting reading for boy's and girls. Can you note how whimsical his style is? Underline such lines as "The unhallowed staff," "her former minuet" (a slow dance with slow, dainty steps), "to lay my hand rudely on a female." Now you find the others. Spelling: Arrayed, orphaned, pakeha, valuable, embroidered, poised, scanned, melancholy, suspiciously, entreating. Dictation exercise. — lst. paragraph page 37. FORM J Reading): Page 34- Read through "The Green Donkey Driver" aloud. Find the meanings of the following words: consider, goal, nightmare, pitiful, switch, thicket, rogue, mirth, flagging, exhibit, symptom, peasant, comedy, inhuman, adapted. Spelling: Learn above words. Dictation : Page 35 — 36. The rogue comedy. STANDARD 4 - ' lleading (time, 20 minutes): March Journal. Read aloud pages 17 to 19. Spelling (time, 20 minutes) : Rule a pencil line underneath these words on pages 18 and 19, and learn them thoroughly: skirt, waist, nearly, coffee, agreed, pleasant, managed, spinning, friendly, feasted, visitor, pigs and sows, fowl-house, autumn, always cellar, cheese, wrapper, milk-pail, eomething, finished. STANDARD 3 Reading: March Journals. Pages 19, 20, 21. Give attention to pbrasing and expression. lime, 20 minutes. Spelling : visitor, autumn, heavy, mention, tiny, exactly empty, exchange. vexed, custom, gloves, forgottem STANDARD 2. Reading: March Journal; Time 15 minutes. 1. Page 18. llead the whole page and note that it is divided into parts or paragraphs which tell about different things. The first part is about the kitchen ; the - second is about the big dresser, and the others tell us about the doings oi Tiny Mouse- 2. Note the sentences in the paragraphs, and read them one by one, pauSing at the commas and stoppitig at the fullstops. 3. Could you underline the adjectives, or deBcribing words on page 18? The first ones are used with nouns or naming words, as, old house, lovely kitchen, and big dresser. Spelling: Adjectives and nouns: lovely kitchen, golden. face, darkest corner, shining brown case, bright stories. STANDARD 1. Reading: Read aloud "Dieky-birds," being careful to enunciate cleariy and make the correct pauses and inflections of voice for all punctuation maika. Read right through "Dickery, Dickery, Dock'' silently, finding any new word* and asking for correct meaning and pronunciation, also the meaning cf any phrase or passage not cleariy understood. Now read tho whole iesson aioud wibh clear articulation. Spelling; Learn the following, t-o be tested later: flew, crust, heap, bath. pulfed, strange, brown, because. warm, lovelv.

ARITHMETIC STANDARD 6. l! 38679 divided by 83. 2. Prove No 1. 3. What fraction (lowest terms) of a ton is 3 cwt 14 ibs. 4. 3 '3-8 plus 4 3-5 plus 7-16. 1 5. How many 3^d things can 1 buy withi 4-7ths of £5 6/2d? 6. How many 2oz pkts can I make with 16 cwt., 3 qr., 15 lb., of powder? 7. Add 51.37, 2.094, 763.9 and subtract 38.92. 8. How many times is 2 and 3-16ths contained in 5 and 5-8ths. Answers to Test 10: 1. £54 13/6; 2^ £13047 6/6; '3. £397 5/1; 4. 73; 5. £7 6/8; 6. 13-88ths; 7. l;ton, 10 cwt., 1 qr., 12 lbs. ; 8. £142 19/1.44d. STANDARD 5 1. 239 lambs at 19/6d each. 2. 5-6ths of £4 10/-. 3. 783 plus 465 plus 764 plus 397 plus 286 plus 487 plus 376 plus 296. 4. Cost of 5£ miles of fencing at £1 10/- a ch. 5. Add 16 tons 14 cwt 2qr plus 18 tong 14 cwt. 1-3 qr. plus 19 tons 16 cwt. 1 qr. plus 17 tons 10 cwt. 2 qr. 6. 160928 divided by 428. 7. 5 cwt 3 qr. 20 lb at ld a lb. Find the cost. • 8. (796 multiplied by 12) subtracted from (796 multiplied by 9). Answers to Test 10: 1. £4 9/8£d; 2. £250 15/6d ; 3. £6 8/3d; 4. 117,034; 5. £72 4/9*d., 6. £127 18/8d. ; 7. 4012; 8. 1 st., 13 Jbs. STANDARD 4. 1. 72,649 plus 8,973 plus 57,293 plus 872 plus 97,653 plus 82,416. 1. Find the product of 729 and 504. 3. What must be added to £482 13/6 lu make £968 15/4 f 4. The dividend is 42,936, tbe divisor is 39; what is the quotient ?

5. Divide £472 18/8 by 7. 6. Multiply £36 12/6 by 36 (factors). 7. How many sixpences in 32 16/6? 8. How many £ s. d. in 12 half croWns plus 12 llorins plus 12 shillifags plus 12 sixpences plus 12 threepences? Time, 45 minutes. Answers to Test 10: 1. £352 9/8 ; 2. £836 10/1; 3. £113 1,7/-; 4. £24 1/10; 5. 1027 threepences ; 6. 10 tons 16 cwt...^ 1 st. ; 7. 879 and 42-79th& ; 8. 6732. ANSWERS TO SERIES 9. Std. 1. : 18, 19, 19, 9, 6, 6, 26, 87. Std. H. : 137, 104, 165, 106, 623, 402, 34, 78 and 3-5ths. Std. III.: 1044, 1141, 70044, 13909, 8629 and 3-8ths, 30954 and 8-9ths, 6848, 17435. STANDARD I. IteviSe all tables to 5-tifues, 1. 7 plus 9 plus 5 I»1ub 3 equala 2. 2 plus 6 plus 7 plus 4 eijuals 3. 7 plus 4 plus 3 plus 5 equals 4. 12 minus 3 equals 5. 15 minus 8 equals 6. 17 minus 9 equals 7. 5 multiplied by 8 plus 4 equals 8. 7 multiplied by 3 plus 4 eqUals STANDARD II. Revise all tables to 8-times. 1. 75 plus 19 plus 28 plus 36 equals 2. 90 plus 17 plus 39 plus 57 equals 3. 196 minus 88 equals 4. 236 mfnu3 159 equals •s

5. 126 mqltiplied by 6 equals 6. 147 multiplied by 8 equals 7. Divide 295 by 7 8. Divide 438 by 6. STANDARD m Revise all "tables to 12-times. 1. 796 plus 238 plus 175 plus 359 plus 165 equals 2. 374 plus 187 plus 149 plus 286 plus 174 equals 3. 2609 multiplied by 12. 4. 4785 multiplied by 9. 5. Divide 36847 by 8. 6. Divide 17658 by 11. 7. 23245 minus 16849. 8. 30070 minus 23684 GEOGRAPHY STANDARDS 5 AND 6 FORMSIAND1L Tlie Clipper has recently arrived from San Francisco; this remarkahle achievement has aroused much interest in our Dominion, and so it might be worth while locating and giving a little thought to the geography of the Pacifie. The proposed air route and air ports mapped out are San Francisco, Honolulu, Kingman's Reef, Pago Pago, Auckland. To the east the proposed ports are from 'Frisco to Honolulu, then Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam, Manilla, Phillipine Islands and Cantqn— C3uua. Read an account of this fligllt from any newspaper.

STANDARDS 3 and i. Union Airways: Palmerston, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dunedin. Cook Strait Airways: Wellington,.; (Rongotai), Blenheim, Nelson. Also from Nelson it is proposed to extend • j the service to Westport, Greymouth , and Hokitika. . East.Coast Airways:" Napier; tq GiB- . borne. , . . Find these places on your atlas, :and ' see if.pos'sible timetables ^and fares in the newspapers. , , . -